The Firm

The Firm

• UNABRIDGED (17 hrs and 15 mins)
• By John Grisham
• Narrated By Scott Brick
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. But he made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife, Abby, were on their way. Mitch should have remembered what his brother Ray -- doing 15 years in a Tennessee jail -- already knew. "You never get nothing for nothing."

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

• ABRIDGED (2 hrs and 21 mins)
• By Clayton M. Christensen
• Narrated By Don Leslie

Great companies can fail: not because they do anything wrong, but because they do everything right. Meeting customers' current needs leads firms to reject breakthrough innovations, "disruptive technologies", that create the products and opportunities of the future.

Setting Limits with Your Strong-Willed Child: Eliminating Conflict by Establishing Clear, Firm, and Respectful Boundaries

• UNABRIDGED (7 hrs and 44 mins)
• By Robert J. MacKenzie
• Narrated By Alan Sklar
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Here is an essential manual for creating a positive, respectful, and rewarding relationship with a strong-willed child. Based on proven techniques and procedures, parents and teachers alike will welcome this book.

How Firm a Foundation: Safehold Series, Book 5

• UNABRIDGED (28 hrs and 27 mins)
• By David Weber
• Narrated By Charles Keating
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The Charisian Empire, born in war, has always known it must fight for its very survival. What most of its subjects don’t know even now, however, is how much more it’s fighting for. Emperor Cayleb, Empress Sharleyan, Merlin Athrawes, and their innermost circle of most trusted advisers do know. And because they do, they know the penalty if they lose will be far worse than their own deaths and the destruction of all they know and love.

The McKinsey Mind: Understanding and Implementing the Problem-Solving Tools and Management Techniques of the World's Top Strategic Consulting Firm

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 13 mins)
• By Ethan Rasiel

McKinsey & Company is the most respected and most secretive consulting firm in the world, and business listeners just can't seem to get enough of all things McKinsey. Now, hot on the heels of his acclaimed international bestseller The McKinsey Way, Ethan Rasiel brings listeners a powerful new guide to putting McKinsey concepts and skills into action The McKinsey Mind.

For the Good of the Firm: Legal Thrillers

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 46 mins)
• By Martin Greenberg (edited by)

The legal profession itself is put on the stand in this collection of courtroom mysteries by some of today's finest mystery writers. From an unusual lawyer with unusual methods, to a conniving attorney who gets the fate he so richly deserves, the halls of justice ring with these stories of intrigue and suspense.

Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose

• UNABRIDGED (11 hrs and 33 mins)
• By Rajendra S. Sisodia, David B. Wolfe, Jagdish N. Sheth
• Narrated By Stow Lovejoy

Today's best companies get it. From Costco to Commerce Bank, Wegmans to Whole Foods, they're becoming the ultimate value creators. They're generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social, and financial. And they're doing it for all their stakeholders. Not because it's politically correct, but because it's the only path to long-term competitive advantage.

How Firm a Foundation

• UNABRIDGED (22 hrs and 10 mins)
• By Marcus Grodi
• Narrated By Kevin O' Brien
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Stephen LaPointe believed in Jesus. For him, the Bible was the only sufficient, firm foundation for his life. He wanted to obey God in all things, and had given up a career to become an ordained minister. He loved to preach the Word and knew that one day he would stand before God, accountable for everything he preached.

Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms

• UNABRIDGED (8 hrs and 26 mins)
• By Abbie Griffin, Raymond Price, Bruce Vojak
• Narrated By Tim Lundeen
• Whispersync for Voice-ready

Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms zeros in on the cutting-edge thinkers who repeatedly create and deliver breakthrough innovations and new products in large, mature organizations. These employees are organizational powerhouses who solve consumer problems and substantially contribute to the financial value to their firms.

VangoNotes for Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm, 10/e

• ORIGINAL (5 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Jane Laudon, Kenneth Laudon
• Narrated By Ax Norman, Alyson Silverman

You're busy. We get it. With VangoNotes you can study "in between" all the other things you need to get done. VangoNotes gives you the confidence you need to succeed in the classroom. They're flexible; just download and go. And, they're efficient. Use them in your car, at the gym, walking to class, wherever. Get yours today and start studying.

The Firm

• UNABRIDGED (15 hrs and 57 mins)
• By John Grisham
• Narrated By Vincent Marzello

The law student was young and had his dreams. He'd qualified third in his class at Harvard, now offers poured in from every law firm in America. The firm was small but well-respected. They were prepared to match, and then exceed Mitch's wildest dreams: eighty thousand a year, a BMW and a low-interest mortgage.

Digging for Disclosure: Tactics for Protecting Your Firm's Assets from Swindlers, Scammers and Imposters

• UNABRIDGED (5 hrs and 20 mins)
• By Kenneth S. Springer
• Narrated By Ken Kliban, Joelle Scott

The indispensable due diligence guide: how to protect yourself from corporate crime or fraud in any major investment, acquisition, merger, or deal! Top investigators reveal how to think like a swindler uncover hidden assets and a borrowers true finances perform international or corporate background checks gain powerful competitive intelligence and more!

The Firm

• ABRIDGED (3 hrs and 2 mins)
• By John Grisham
• Narrated By D.W. Moffett

Mitchell McDeere, raised in the coal-mining region of rural Kentucky, has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Mitch could have his pick of the big firms in New York and Chicago, but he's chosen the Memphis tax firm Bendini, Lambert, & Locke. They're selective. They pay outrageous salaries. They have a turnover rate of zero. And Mitch is about to find out why.

Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms: The Guide to Establishing Credibility and Accelerating Relationships

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 42 mins)
• By Michelle Golden
• Narrated By Elisa Carlson

Showing professionals and their marketers how to accomplish familiar marketing tactics in newer, ways, Social Media for Professionals and Their Firms takes you step by step in putting social media to work for your professional practice. Whether you want to build your own on-line reputation, or are ready to explore new media for corporate marketing and communications, this book is the definitive guide for your strategic approach.

The Long Firm

• UNABRIDGED (13 hrs and 40 mins)
• By Jake Arnott
• Narrated By Dave John

Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate, and keen Judy Garland fan. There is - contrary to popular belief - a business like show business: It’s what Harry does. Fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; performing menace while trying to jump the counter into legitimacy. Set in '60s London, the Kray twins and infamous landlord Peter Rachman are incidental characters in this superb novel.

The Chairman

• UNABRIDGED (12 hrs and 8 mins)
• By Stephen Frey
• Narrated By Scott Brick

No one knows the dark side of "The Street" better than master storyteller Stephen Frey, author of such riveting novels as Shadow Account and The Day Trader. Now, in his most ambitious work to date, Frey proves that no writer can put a high-powered hero at greater risk, nor offer readers more thrilling rewards.

If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business (Harvard Business Review)

• UNABRIDGED (35 mins)
• By Robert Pozen
• Narrated By Todd Mundt

Learn how buyout firms can see opportunity for value enhancement in five key areas - and how to beat them to the punch. From the November 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review.

Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work

• NONE (30 mins)
• By Henry Mintzberg (Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies, McGill University), Ludo Van der Heyden (Solvay Chair for Technical Innovation, and others

In the Shadow of the Law

• UNABRIDGED (16 hrs and 2 mins)
• By Kermit Roosevelt
• Narrated By Craig Wasson

Morgan Siler is one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful K Street law firms, its roster of clients stocked with multi-billion-dollar corporations. Through the obsessive efforts of its founder's son, Peter Morgan, his father's old-fashioned business has been transformed into a veritable goliath, embracing bankruptcy and merger divisions that Archibald Morgan had deemed ungentlemanly.